Education

Gathering vital data on the rare and little-studied species of marine life which inhabit the icy western Weddell Sea ecosystem, in order to understand better how to protect the area for future generations.

Exploration

Going in search of Shackleton’s lost ship
Endurance, which sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

For the first time deploying automated underwater vehicles to voyage beneath the ice in search of the wreck of
Endurance, which was abandoned, crushed by the ice and sank more than a century ago.